Under The Skin #36
BeyondConspiracy - The Terrifying Truth Of CorporatePowerHaving spent years investigating some of the wealthiest people on the planet, journalist and broadcaster Jacques Peretti joins me to discuss the secret billion dollar deals that we never hear about but which are changing our world and revolutionising everything we do.
Unf*ck Yourself From The Modern World with my new book Recovery
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We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
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Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

published:28 Jan 2017

views:18127

Yaron Brook answers a question from Isaac: Don't corporations wield enormous power over us and don't we need government protection?" www.laissezfaireblog.com

published:25 Jun 2012

views:3285

Who is more POWERFUL, CORPORATIONS OR STATES?
Amazon is now worth $1,000,000,000,000, but how powerful are corporations like Amazon compared to States?
It has become apparent that international relations are anything but a one-sided story of either state or corporate power. Globalisation has changed the rules of the game, empowering corporations but bringing back state power through new transnational state-corporate relations. International relations has become a giant three-dimensional chess game with states and corporations as intertwined actors.
States using corporations to achieve geopolitical goals in an increasingly hostile environment, and powerful corporations perhaps using more aggressive strategies to extract profits in response. If this is where we’re heading, it could have a lasting impact on the world order.
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published:03 Sep 2018

views:6382

Thom takes your calls and gets to the real problem at the heart of our democracy, namely corporate power, but how did it become so strong?
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published:25 Aug 2017

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A new kind of fascism has taken over America: the merger of corporations and government whereby corporate power dominates. With the emergence of ever-larger multinational corporations -- due to consolidation facilitated by the Federal Reserve's endless FIAT money -- the corporatocracy has been in a position to literally purchase the U.S. Congress.
A JamesJaegerFilm featuring RON PAUL, Congressman/Presidential Candidate; PAT BUCHANAN, Author/Political Analyst; G. EDWARD GRIFFIN, Author/Producer; EDWIN VIEIRA, Author/Constitutional Attorney and TED BAEHR, Founder of MovieGuide and ChristianFilm & TVCommission.
A result of the corporate purchase of Congress is that many of the nation's "laws" have been re-configured to benefit WE THE CORPORATIONS, rather than WE THE PEOPLE. "Laws" like NAFTA and GATT resulted in the outsourcing of the U.S. manufacturing base and the destruction of the Middle Class. This is nothing less than the 1 Percenters abusing the 99 Percenters. Known as "monopoly capitalism," "crony capitalism," "mercantilism," "globalization," "the new world order," and/or "free trade" -- this is NOT your Grandfather's capitalism.
If you liked this film, help us make our new film "MOLON LABE - How the Second Amendment Guarantees America's Freedom". See http://www.molon.us
Get this, and other James Jaeger films, on higher quality DVD at www.MoviePubs.Net/dvds. Donations and DVD sales are what make these films possible. If you can't afford a DVD, please at least refer this movie and its URLs to your list of family, friends and associates.

Russell Brand (now on The Trews) is well known for his comedy and acting, but also his commentary and analysis of main stream media and the faults therein. Today, he talks to Cenk Uygur about the the unbelievable corporate bias in news, our modern political landscape, and how we can fix and cope with both cultures. How does Ferguson coverage show us how pundits like Bill O'Reilly and others have failed the American public? When did news conform to the status quo and maintaining the agenda of the powerful, rather than serving the public? How do those of us without billions of dollars at our disposal cope with the world as it is? And how does the role of celebrity ironically play into this?
Russell and Cenk have a frank discussion on these topics and the toxic relationships between politics, mainstream media, and power, and how money is the corrupting link between them all.
Watch Russell Brand's "The Trews" at https://www.youtube.com/user/russellbrand
Follow Russell on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rustyrockets

Power!

Plot

The player operates a rocket-powered hovercraft whose mission is to destroy an enemy transfer beam that is protected not only by long-distance enemy raiders and mines, but also molecular disorientation that sucks the energy from the player's attack craft.

Gameplay

The player may control the hovercraft in either a normal joystick operational mode or with vectored movement. When the player pushes forward on the joystick, the hovercraft accelerates, and when pulling back on the joystick, speed decreases.

References

External links

PoweredUSB

PoweredUSB, also known as Retail USB, USBPlusPower, and USB+Power, is an addition to the Universal Serial Bus standard that allows for higher-power devices to obtain power through their USB host instead of requiring an independent power supply or external AC adapter. It is mostly used in point-of-sale equipment, such as receipt printers and barcode readers.

History

PoweredUSB, as a proprietary variant of USB, was developed and proposed by IBM, Berg (now FCI), NCR and Microsoft between 1998 and 1999, with the last revision (0.8g) issued in 2004. The specification is not endorsed by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). IBM, who owns patents to PoweredUSB, charges a licensing fee for its use.

Implementation

PoweredUSB uses a more complex connector than standard USB, maintaining the standard USB 1.x/2.0 interface for data communications and adding a second connector for power. Physically, it is essentially two connectors stacked such that the bottom connector accepts a standard USB plug and the top connector takes a power plug.

Power Nine

In Magic: The Gathering, Power Nine is a set of nine cards that were only printed early in the game's history, consisting of Black Lotus,Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, Mox Pearl, Mox Sapphire, Mox Jet, Mox Ruby, Mox Emerald, and Timetwister.

The Power Nine are considered to be among the most powerful cards in the game. All nine cards were of the rarest level of rarity and printed only in the Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited sets, meaning they were only printed from late 1993 to early 1994. Currently, all of the Power Nine cards are restricted in the Vintage tournament format and banned in Legacy, the only tournament formats where they would be legal otherwise, and all except for Timetwister are banned in the casual Commander format.

Cards

Black Lotus

The "Black Lotus" card can be played at zero cost, and grants three mana (the game's primary resource) when sacrificed (discarded from play). Thus, the card gives the player an enormous jump in the early stages of a Magic game. Former Pro player and Magic writer Zvi Mowshowitz has declared Black Lotus as the best card of its type of all time, claiming every deck in the history of the game is better with a Black Lotus in it. It has since been banned from all official tournament styles save for Vintage, but even there, it is limited to one copy per deck, compared to the normal allowance of four. The illustration on Black Lotus was painted by Christopher Rush, who was at the time a Wizards of the Coast employee. The Black Lotus illustration is a depiction of a black lotusflower over a foliage backdrop.

Corporation

A corporation is a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. Early incorporated entities were established by charter (i.e. by an ad hoc act granted by a monarch or passed by a parliament or legislature). Most jurisdictions now allow the creation of new corporations through registration.

Corporations come in many different types but are usually divided by the law of the jurisdiction where they are chartered into two kinds: by whether or not they can issue stock, or by whether or not they are for profit.

Where local law distinguishes corporations by ability to issue stock, corporations allowed to do so are referred to as "stock corporations", ownership of the corporation is through stock, and owners of stock are referred to as "stockholders." Corporations not allowed to issue stock are referred to as "non-stock" corporations, those who are considered the owners of the corporation are those who have obtained membership in the corporation, and are referred to as a "member" of the corporation.

Corporate (film)

Corporate is a Bollywood film released in July 2006. The film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar stars Bipasha Basu, Kay Kay Menon, Payal Rohatgi, Minissha Lamba and Raj Babbar.
The movie revolves around the power game between two powerful industrialists. And based on the Pesticides issue in India on 2003 when Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment published a disputed report finding pesticide levels in Coke and Pepsi soft drinks sold in India at levels 30 times that considered safe by the European Economic Commission. The movie got acclaimed from critics. It grossed 163.8 million at box office, well above its 40 million budget.

Plot

Corporate centers around the power games between two industrialists, The Sehgal Group of Industries (SGI) owned by Vinay Sehgal (Rajat Kapoor) and the Marwah Group of Industries (MGI) owned by Dharmesh Marwah (Raj Babbar). The two companies are traditional rivals in the food products business. Bipasha Basu plays Nishigandha Dasgupta aka Nishi, vice president of SGI, while Vinay Sehgal's brother-in-law Ritesh (Kay Kay Menon) joins in later as senior vice president.

Beyond Conspiracy - The Terrifying Truth Of Corporate Power

Under The Skin #36
BeyondConspiracy - The Terrifying Truth Of CorporatePowerHaving spent years investigating some of the wealthiest people on the planet, journalist and broadcaster Jacques Peretti joins me to discuss the secret billion dollar deals that we never hear about but which are changing our world and revolutionising everything we do.
Unf*ck Yourself From The Modern World with my new book Recovery
Get it here in US: http://tinyurl.com/ydcwz3kd
Australia: https://t.co/Ri1XSonD2X
UK: http://tinyurl.com/ycs8gu6b
To see me on my Re:Birth tour go to https://russellbrand.seetickets.com/tour/russell-brand/list/1/200Listen to my Under The Skin podcast here https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/u...
Subscribe to the Trews here: http://tinyurl.com/opragcg
Produced & edited by Gareth Roy
Trews Music by Tom Excell & Oliver Cadman
Trews Graphic by Ger Carney

How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
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Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

5:35

Yaron Answers: Corporate Power

Yaron Answers: Corporate Power

Yaron Answers: Corporate Power

Yaron Brook answers a question from Isaac: Don't corporations wield enormous power over us and don't we need government protection?" www.laissezfaireblog.com

11:26

CORPORATE POWER V STATE POWER - KJ Vids

CORPORATE POWER V STATE POWER - KJ Vids

CORPORATE POWER V STATE POWER - KJ Vids

Who is more POWERFUL, CORPORATIONS OR STATES?
Amazon is now worth $1,000,000,000,000, but how powerful are corporations like Amazon compared to States?
It has become apparent that international relations are anything but a one-sided story of either state or corporate power. Globalisation has changed the rules of the game, empowering corporations but bringing back state power through new transnational state-corporate relations. International relations has become a giant three-dimensional chess game with states and corporations as intertwined actors.
States using corporations to achieve geopolitical goals in an increasingly hostile environment, and powerful corporations perhaps using more aggressive strategies to extract profits in response. If this is where we’re heading, it could have a lasting impact on the world order.
Important links we want you to check out;
Sponsor our next video - https://www.fundmyvideo.com/kjvids
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Leaders - https://goo.gl/46fhwA
Public Opinion - https://goo.gl/BvNicA
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QuickHistory - https://goo.gl/fnVkbA
Africa - https://goo.gl/4MQ4Ts
America - https://goo.gl/cTBuji
East Asia - https://goo.gl/73hZsK
Europe - https://goo.gl/TMq2cv
Middle East & The Gulf - https://goo.gl/Vk9jYD
UK - https://goo.gl/KSW9fz
South Asia - https://goo.gl/Pd2nRf
South America - https://goo.gl/BZH8Ch

6:36

How Did Corporate Power Become So Dominant?

How Did Corporate Power Become So Dominant?

How Did Corporate Power Become So Dominant?

Thom takes your calls and gets to the real problem at the heart of our democracy, namely corporate power, but how did it become so strong?
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1:41:52

CORPORATE FASCISM - The Destruction of America's Middle Class

CORPORATE FASCISM - The Destruction of America's Middle Class

CORPORATE FASCISM - The Destruction of America's Middle Class

A new kind of fascism has taken over America: the merger of corporations and government whereby corporate power dominates. With the emergence of ever-larger multinational corporations -- due to consolidation facilitated by the Federal Reserve's endless FIAT money -- the corporatocracy has been in a position to literally purchase the U.S. Congress.
A JamesJaegerFilm featuring RON PAUL, Congressman/Presidential Candidate; PAT BUCHANAN, Author/Political Analyst; G. EDWARD GRIFFIN, Author/Producer; EDWIN VIEIRA, Author/Constitutional Attorney and TED BAEHR, Founder of MovieGuide and ChristianFilm & TVCommission.
A result of the corporate purchase of Congress is that many of the nation's "laws" have been re-configured to benefit WE THE CORPORATIONS, rather than WE THE PEOPLE. "Laws" like NAFTA and GATT resulted in the outsourcing of the U.S. manufacturing base and the destruction of the Middle Class. This is nothing less than the 1 Percenters abusing the 99 Percenters. Known as "monopoly capitalism," "crony capitalism," "mercantilism," "globalization," "the new world order," and/or "free trade" -- this is NOT your Grandfather's capitalism.
If you liked this film, help us make our new film "MOLON LABE - How the Second Amendment Guarantees America's Freedom". See http://www.molon.us
Get this, and other James Jaeger films, on higher quality DVD at www.MoviePubs.Net/dvds. Donations and DVD sales are what make these films possible. If you can't afford a DVD, please at least refer this movie and its URLs to your list of family, friends and associates.

Rise of Financial Corporate Power

Russell Brand on Corporate Power in Media & Who Is Really Being Served

Russell Brand on Corporate Power in Media & Who Is Really Being Served

Russell Brand on Corporate Power in Media & Who Is Really Being Served

Russell Brand (now on The Trews) is well known for his comedy and acting, but also his commentary and analysis of main stream media and the faults therein. Today, he talks to Cenk Uygur about the the unbelievable corporate bias in news, our modern political landscape, and how we can fix and cope with both cultures. How does Ferguson coverage show us how pundits like Bill O'Reilly and others have failed the American public? When did news conform to the status quo and maintaining the agenda of the powerful, rather than serving the public? How do those of us without billions of dollars at our disposal cope with the world as it is? And how does the role of celebrity ironically play into this?
Russell and Cenk have a frank discussion on these topics and the toxic relationships between politics, mainstream media, and power, and how money is the corrupting link between them all.
Watch Russell Brand's "The Trews" at https://www.youtube.com/user/russellbrand
Follow Russell on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rustyrockets

Making Sense of Technology, Privacy and Corporate Power | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 17

Making Sense of Technology, Privacy and Corporate Power | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 17

Making Sense of Technology, Privacy and Corporate Power | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 17

In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art (hereinafter “MoMA”) PS1 held the exhibition of Simon Denny, The Innovator’s Dilemma. The title was originated from the theory of an economist that, when the company that has obtained and maintained the lead in the market stops launching new technologies, the company is overtaken by a new technology developed by the late starter. Here, the sad part is that the more often people see such theory being realized, the more they are living their lives in anxiety.Denny looks at the economic theory, which continuously asks for innovative changes that overturn the system and fast and ruthless emergence of completely new machines that change the world, from a contemplative point of view.
Perhaps, the reason that his works gather attention from the art scene may be because the destiny of these companies is similar to that of us, who have to survive today’s extremely competitive society described by such theory. In the seventeenth episode of BrilliantIdeas brought to you by Bloomberg and Hyundai Motor, experience the works of Simon Denny, the high technology explorer.

Beyond Conspiracy - The Terrifying Truth Of Corporate Power

Under The Skin #36
BeyondConspiracy - The Terrifying Truth Of CorporatePowerHaving spent years investigating some of the wealthiest people on the planet, journalist and broadcaster Jacques Peretti joins me to discuss the secret billion dollar deals that we never hear about but which are changing our world and revolutionising everything we do.
Unf*ck Yourself From The Modern World with my new book Recovery
Get it here in US: http://tinyurl.com/ydcwz3kd
Australia: https://t.co/Ri1XSonD2X
UK: http://tinyurl.com/ycs8gu6b
To see me on my Re:Birth tour go to https://russellbrand.seetickets.com/tour/russell-brand/list/1/200Listen to my Under The Skin podcast here https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/u...
Subscribe to the Trews here: http://tinyurl.com/opragcg
Produced & edited by Gareth R...

The Rise of Corporate Power

How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
Subscribe To My Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoFWz1e3VXKOoJ-E5cep1Eg
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SoulChef – Blind Man See
https://www.youtube.com/user/soulchefmusic
Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a litt...

published: 28 Jan 2017

Yaron Answers: Corporate Power

Yaron Brook answers a question from Isaac: Don't corporations wield enormous power over us and don't we need government protection?" www.laissezfaireblog.com

published: 25 Jun 2012

CORPORATE POWER V STATE POWER - KJ Vids

Who is more POWERFUL, CORPORATIONS OR STATES?
Amazon is now worth $1,000,000,000,000, but how powerful are corporations like Amazon compared to States?
It has become apparent that international relations are anything but a one-sided story of either state or corporate power. Globalisation has changed the rules of the game, empowering corporations but bringing back state power through new transnational state-corporate relations. International relations has become a giant three-dimensional chess game with states and corporations as intertwined actors.
States using corporations to achieve geopolitical goals in an increasingly hostile environment, and powerful corporations perhaps using more aggressive strategies to extract profits in response. If this is where we’re heading, it could have a...

published: 03 Sep 2018

How Did Corporate Power Become So Dominant?

Thom takes your calls and gets to the real problem at the heart of our democracy, namely corporate power, but how did it become so strong?
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► Join us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/thomhartmann where you can also watch a re-run of the three hour program at any time
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Rise of Financial Corporate Power

Russell Brand on Corporate Power in Media & Who Is Really Being Served

Russell Brand (now on The Trews) is well known for his comedy and acting, but also his commentary and analysis of main stream media and the faults therein. Today, he talks to Cenk Uygur about the the unbelievable corporate bias in news, our modern political landscape, and how we can fix and cope with both cultures. How does Ferguson coverage show us how pundits like Bill O'Reilly and others have failed the American public? When did news conform to the status quo and maintaining the agenda of the powerful, rather than serving the public? How do those of us without billions of dollars at our disposal cope with the world as it is? And how does the role of celebrity ironically play into this?
Russell and Cenk have a frank discussion on these topics and the toxic relationships between politics...

Making Sense of Technology, Privacy and Corporate Power | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 17

In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art (hereinafter “MoMA”) PS1 held the exhibition of Simon Denny, The Innovator’s Dilemma. The title was originated from the theory of an economist that, when the company that has obtained and maintained the lead in the market stops launching new technologies, the company is overtaken by a new technology developed by the late starter. Here, the sad part is that the more often people see such theory being realized, the more they are living their lives in anxiety.Denny looks at the economic theory, which continuously asks for innovative changes that overturn the system and fast and ruthless emergence of completely new machines that change the world, from a contemplative point of view.
Perhaps, the reason that his works gather attention from the art scene may be...

Under The Skin #36
BeyondConspiracy - The Terrifying Truth Of CorporatePowerHaving spent years investigating some of the wealthiest people on the planet, journalist and broadcaster Jacques Peretti joins me to discuss the secret billion dollar deals that we never hear about but which are changing our world and revolutionising everything we do.
Unf*ck Yourself From The Modern World with my new book Recovery
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Under The Skin #36
BeyondConspiracy - The Terrifying Truth Of CorporatePowerHaving spent years investigating some of the wealthiest people on the planet, journalist and broadcaster Jacques Peretti joins me to discuss the secret billion dollar deals that we never hear about but which are changing our world and revolutionising everything we do.
Unf*ck Yourself From The Modern World with my new book Recovery
Get it here in US: http://tinyurl.com/ydcwz3kd
Australia: https://t.co/Ri1XSonD2X
UK: http://tinyurl.com/ycs8gu6b
To see me on my Re:Birth tour go to https://russellbrand.seetickets.com/tour/russell-brand/list/1/200Listen to my Under The Skin podcast here https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/u...
Subscribe to the Trews here: http://tinyurl.com/opragcg
Produced & edited by Gareth Roy
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How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our ...

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
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Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
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Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

CORPORATE POWER V STATE POWER - KJ Vids

Who is more POWERFUL, CORPORATIONS OR STATES?
Amazon is now worth $1,000,000,000,000, but how powerful are corporations like Amazon compared to States?
It has...

Who is more POWERFUL, CORPORATIONS OR STATES?
Amazon is now worth $1,000,000,000,000, but how powerful are corporations like Amazon compared to States?
It has become apparent that international relations are anything but a one-sided story of either state or corporate power. Globalisation has changed the rules of the game, empowering corporations but bringing back state power through new transnational state-corporate relations. International relations has become a giant three-dimensional chess game with states and corporations as intertwined actors.
States using corporations to achieve geopolitical goals in an increasingly hostile environment, and powerful corporations perhaps using more aggressive strategies to extract profits in response. If this is where we’re heading, it could have a lasting impact on the world order.
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Who is more POWERFUL, CORPORATIONS OR STATES?
Amazon is now worth $1,000,000,000,000, but how powerful are corporations like Amazon compared to States?
It has become apparent that international relations are anything but a one-sided story of either state or corporate power. Globalisation has changed the rules of the game, empowering corporations but bringing back state power through new transnational state-corporate relations. International relations has become a giant three-dimensional chess game with states and corporations as intertwined actors.
States using corporations to achieve geopolitical goals in an increasingly hostile environment, and powerful corporations perhaps using more aggressive strategies to extract profits in response. If this is where we’re heading, it could have a lasting impact on the world order.
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How Did Corporate Power Become So Dominant?

Thom takes your calls and gets to the real problem at the heart of our democracy, namely corporate power, but how did it become so strong?
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CORPORATE FASCISM - The Destruction of America's Middle Class

A new kind of fascism has taken over America: the merger of corporations and government whereby corporate power dominates. With the emergence of ever-larger mu...

A new kind of fascism has taken over America: the merger of corporations and government whereby corporate power dominates. With the emergence of ever-larger multinational corporations -- due to consolidation facilitated by the Federal Reserve's endless FIAT money -- the corporatocracy has been in a position to literally purchase the U.S. Congress.
A JamesJaegerFilm featuring RON PAUL, Congressman/Presidential Candidate; PAT BUCHANAN, Author/Political Analyst; G. EDWARD GRIFFIN, Author/Producer; EDWIN VIEIRA, Author/Constitutional Attorney and TED BAEHR, Founder of MovieGuide and ChristianFilm & TVCommission.
A result of the corporate purchase of Congress is that many of the nation's "laws" have been re-configured to benefit WE THE CORPORATIONS, rather than WE THE PEOPLE. "Laws" like NAFTA and GATT resulted in the outsourcing of the U.S. manufacturing base and the destruction of the Middle Class. This is nothing less than the 1 Percenters abusing the 99 Percenters. Known as "monopoly capitalism," "crony capitalism," "mercantilism," "globalization," "the new world order," and/or "free trade" -- this is NOT your Grandfather's capitalism.
If you liked this film, help us make our new film "MOLON LABE - How the Second Amendment Guarantees America's Freedom". See http://www.molon.us
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A new kind of fascism has taken over America: the merger of corporations and government whereby corporate power dominates. With the emergence of ever-larger multinational corporations -- due to consolidation facilitated by the Federal Reserve's endless FIAT money -- the corporatocracy has been in a position to literally purchase the U.S. Congress.
A JamesJaegerFilm featuring RON PAUL, Congressman/Presidential Candidate; PAT BUCHANAN, Author/Political Analyst; G. EDWARD GRIFFIN, Author/Producer; EDWIN VIEIRA, Author/Constitutional Attorney and TED BAEHR, Founder of MovieGuide and ChristianFilm & TVCommission.
A result of the corporate purchase of Congress is that many of the nation's "laws" have been re-configured to benefit WE THE CORPORATIONS, rather than WE THE PEOPLE. "Laws" like NAFTA and GATT resulted in the outsourcing of the U.S. manufacturing base and the destruction of the Middle Class. This is nothing less than the 1 Percenters abusing the 99 Percenters. Known as "monopoly capitalism," "crony capitalism," "mercantilism," "globalization," "the new world order," and/or "free trade" -- this is NOT your Grandfather's capitalism.
If you liked this film, help us make our new film "MOLON LABE - How the Second Amendment Guarantees America's Freedom". See http://www.molon.us
Get this, and other James Jaeger films, on higher quality DVD at www.MoviePubs.Net/dvds. Donations and DVD sales are what make these films possible. If you can't afford a DVD, please at least refer this movie and its URLs to your list of family, friends and associates.

Russell Brand on Corporate Power in Media & Who Is Really Being Served

Russell Brand (now on The Trews) is well known for his comedy and acting, but also his commentary and analysis of main stream media and the faults therein. Toda...

Russell Brand (now on The Trews) is well known for his comedy and acting, but also his commentary and analysis of main stream media and the faults therein. Today, he talks to Cenk Uygur about the the unbelievable corporate bias in news, our modern political landscape, and how we can fix and cope with both cultures. How does Ferguson coverage show us how pundits like Bill O'Reilly and others have failed the American public? When did news conform to the status quo and maintaining the agenda of the powerful, rather than serving the public? How do those of us without billions of dollars at our disposal cope with the world as it is? And how does the role of celebrity ironically play into this?
Russell and Cenk have a frank discussion on these topics and the toxic relationships between politics, mainstream media, and power, and how money is the corrupting link between them all.
Watch Russell Brand's "The Trews" at https://www.youtube.com/user/russellbrand
Follow Russell on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rustyrockets

Russell Brand (now on The Trews) is well known for his comedy and acting, but also his commentary and analysis of main stream media and the faults therein. Today, he talks to Cenk Uygur about the the unbelievable corporate bias in news, our modern political landscape, and how we can fix and cope with both cultures. How does Ferguson coverage show us how pundits like Bill O'Reilly and others have failed the American public? When did news conform to the status quo and maintaining the agenda of the powerful, rather than serving the public? How do those of us without billions of dollars at our disposal cope with the world as it is? And how does the role of celebrity ironically play into this?
Russell and Cenk have a frank discussion on these topics and the toxic relationships between politics, mainstream media, and power, and how money is the corrupting link between them all.
Watch Russell Brand's "The Trews" at https://www.youtube.com/user/russellbrand
Follow Russell on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rustyrockets

In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art (hereinafter “MoMA”) PS1 held the exhibition of Simon Denny, The Innovator’s Dilemma. The title was originated from the theory of an economist that, when the company that has obtained and maintained the lead in the market stops launching new technologies, the company is overtaken by a new technology developed by the late starter. Here, the sad part is that the more often people see such theory being realized, the more they are living their lives in anxiety.Denny looks at the economic theory, which continuously asks for innovative changes that overturn the system and fast and ruthless emergence of completely new machines that change the world, from a contemplative point of view.
Perhaps, the reason that his works gather attention from the art scene may be because the destiny of these companies is similar to that of us, who have to survive today’s extremely competitive society described by such theory. In the seventeenth episode of BrilliantIdeas brought to you by Bloomberg and Hyundai Motor, experience the works of Simon Denny, the high technology explorer.

In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art (hereinafter “MoMA”) PS1 held the exhibition of Simon Denny, The Innovator’s Dilemma. The title was originated from the theory of an economist that, when the company that has obtained and maintained the lead in the market stops launching new technologies, the company is overtaken by a new technology developed by the late starter. Here, the sad part is that the more often people see such theory being realized, the more they are living their lives in anxiety.Denny looks at the economic theory, which continuously asks for innovative changes that overturn the system and fast and ruthless emergence of completely new machines that change the world, from a contemplative point of view.
Perhaps, the reason that his works gather attention from the art scene may be because the destiny of these companies is similar to that of us, who have to survive today’s extremely competitive society described by such theory. In the seventeenth episode of BrilliantIdeas brought to you by Bloomberg and Hyundai Motor, experience the works of Simon Denny, the high technology explorer.

Beyond Conspiracy - The Terrifying Truth Of Corporate Power

Under The Skin #36
BeyondConspiracy - The Terrifying Truth Of CorporatePowerHaving spent years investigating some of the wealthiest people on the planet, journalist and broadcaster Jacques Peretti joins me to discuss the secret billion dollar deals that we never hear about but which are changing our world and revolutionising everything we do.
Unf*ck Yourself From The Modern World with my new book Recovery
Get it here in US: http://tinyurl.com/ydcwz3kd
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How Corporations Became so Powerful in 6 Minutes

We live in a democracy right? Well kind of. Learn how corporations became so powerful and why they became so interconnected with our government undermining our democratic system.
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Script:
Go to any city, any town, any rest stop in America and you’re bound to find the same old shopping centers with the same stores and the same gas stations and the same fast food as any other city. How did just a few companies gain monopoly over the entire country? You know which companies I’m talking about – the Coca Cola’s, the Shell’s, the Comcasts, you name it.
First a little bit of background about what a corporation is. The word corporation comes from the Latin word corpus which means body of people. In fact in ancient Roman law, corporate entities were recognized and even given protection under the law. Similarly today, by definition a corporation is simply a group of people who have been authorized by law to act as a single legal entity. And while most of the time we use the word corporate negatively, corporations are not innately bad. They can be bad or good just like people. However, over the past 100 years corporations have gained certain legal rights that have allowed them to gain more and more power. Again – some may use their power responsibly for good, while others recklessly for bad. ThinkGoogle vs. Exxon-Mobile.
Corporations today are super powerful for a number of reasons.
First Corporations are allowed to create Political Action Committees or PACs for short, which are basically organizations that pool money from members and donate those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives or legislation. For example AT&T donated nearly $3 million dollars during the 2016 campaign cycle on funding the campaigns of possible representatives they believed would put out legislation in AT&Ts best interest.
Second corporations tend to spend a lot of money on lobbying in Washington in the hopes of influencing politicians on a particular issue. For example the oil company Exxon-Mobile has spent over $200 million dollars alone over the past 20 years on lobbying. Just in 2008 the company spent over $29 million dollars in an effort to defeat legislation that addressed climate change.
Not only do corporations donate millions of dollars to the politicians they know will act in their best interest, or spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expert influencers to try and get those politicians to sign or block legislation that will help or hurt their companies, but they also employ many “revolvers” or people who were at one time government employees that now work for corporations – strengthening the connection between corporations and government further. Of the 29 registered lobbyists that work for Exxon-Mobile, 22 of them have at one time been government employees. You get the point. Of course Exxon is just one example out of many – I don’t know why I’m ragging on Exxon, but I am – if you happen to be the CEO please don’t come after me, I’m just using you as an example. Anyways the point is corporations and the government is tightly wound up within each other.
So how did this happen?
Before the late 1800s, corporations were required to be public service organizations and have a stated public purpose. In other words they were a sort of gift from a group of people to serve the public good. They were tightly controlled and very limited due to widespread public opposition. In fact a common misconception is that the Boston Tea Party was a protest between the American Revolutionaries and the King of England, but rather it was a protest by the Americans against the monopolization of the tea market by the East India Company.

CORPORATE POWER V STATE POWER - KJ Vids

Who is more POWERFUL, CORPORATIONS OR STATES?
Amazon is now worth $1,000,000,000,000, but how powerful are corporations like Amazon compared to States?
It has become apparent that international relations are anything but a one-sided story of either state or corporate power. Globalisation has changed the rules of the game, empowering corporations but bringing back state power through new transnational state-corporate relations. International relations has become a giant three-dimensional chess game with states and corporations as intertwined actors.
States using corporations to achieve geopolitical goals in an increasingly hostile environment, and powerful corporations perhaps using more aggressive strategies to extract profits in response. If this is where we’re heading, it could have a lasting impact on the world order.
Important links we want you to check out;
Sponsor our next video - https://www.fundmyvideo.com/kjvids
Keep us Independent - https://www.fundmypage.com/kjvids
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All other enquiries - info@kjvids.co.uk
Watch our other Playlists
Geopolitics - https://goo.gl/haQTbJ
Global Trends - https://goo.gl/9q2NHL
International Relations - https://goo.gl/Jzvous
Leaders - https://goo.gl/46fhwA
Public Opinion - https://goo.gl/BvNicA
Strategy - https://goo.gl/Z1NnqW
QuickHistory - https://goo.gl/fnVkbA
Africa - https://goo.gl/4MQ4Ts
America - https://goo.gl/cTBuji
East Asia - https://goo.gl/73hZsK
Europe - https://goo.gl/TMq2cv
Middle East & The Gulf - https://goo.gl/Vk9jYD
UK - https://goo.gl/KSW9fz
South Asia - https://goo.gl/Pd2nRf
South America - https://goo.gl/BZH8Ch

How Did Corporate Power Become So Dominant?

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CORPORATE FASCISM - The Destruction of America's Middle Class

A new kind of fascism has taken over America: the merger of corporations and government whereby corporate power dominates. With the emergence of ever-larger multinational corporations -- due to consolidation facilitated by the Federal Reserve's endless FIAT money -- the corporatocracy has been in a position to literally purchase the U.S. Congress.
A JamesJaegerFilm featuring RON PAUL, Congressman/Presidential Candidate; PAT BUCHANAN, Author/Political Analyst; G. EDWARD GRIFFIN, Author/Producer; EDWIN VIEIRA, Author/Constitutional Attorney and TED BAEHR, Founder of MovieGuide and ChristianFilm & TVCommission.
A result of the corporate purchase of Congress is that many of the nation's "laws" have been re-configured to benefit WE THE CORPORATIONS, rather than WE THE PEOPLE. "Laws" like NAFTA and GATT resulted in the outsourcing of the U.S. manufacturing base and the destruction of the Middle Class. This is nothing less than the 1 Percenters abusing the 99 Percenters. Known as "monopoly capitalism," "crony capitalism," "mercantilism," "globalization," "the new world order," and/or "free trade" -- this is NOT your Grandfather's capitalism.
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Russell Brand on Corporate Power in Media & Who Is Really Being Served

Russell Brand (now on The Trews) is well known for his comedy and acting, but also his commentary and analysis of main stream media and the faults therein. Today, he talks to Cenk Uygur about the the unbelievable corporate bias in news, our modern political landscape, and how we can fix and cope with both cultures. How does Ferguson coverage show us how pundits like Bill O'Reilly and others have failed the American public? When did news conform to the status quo and maintaining the agenda of the powerful, rather than serving the public? How do those of us without billions of dollars at our disposal cope with the world as it is? And how does the role of celebrity ironically play into this?
Russell and Cenk have a frank discussion on these topics and the toxic relationships between politics, mainstream media, and power, and how money is the corrupting link between them all.
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Making Sense of Technology, Privacy and Corporate Power | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 17

In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art (hereinafter “MoMA”) PS1 held the exhibition of Simon Denny, The Innovator’s Dilemma. The title was originated from the theory of an economist that, when the company that has obtained and maintained the lead in the market stops launching new technologies, the company is overtaken by a new technology developed by the late starter. Here, the sad part is that the more often people see such theory being realized, the more they are living their lives in anxiety.Denny looks at the economic theory, which continuously asks for innovative changes that overturn the system and fast and ruthless emergence of completely new machines that change the world, from a contemplative point of view.
Perhaps, the reason that his works gather attention from the art scene may be because the destiny of these companies is similar to that of us, who have to survive today’s extremely competitive society described by such theory. In the seventeenth episode of BrilliantIdeas brought to you by Bloomberg and Hyundai Motor, experience the works of Simon Denny, the high technology explorer.

Power!

Plot

The player operates a rocket-powered hovercraft whose mission is to destroy an enemy transfer beam that is protected not only by long-distance enemy raiders and mines, but also molecular disorientation that sucks the energy from the player's attack craft.

Gameplay

The player may control the hovercraft in either a normal joystick operational mode or with vectored movement. When the player pushes forward on the joystick, the hovercraft accelerates, and when pulling back on the joystick, speed decreases.